Former F1 champion Michael Schumacher has been discharged from a Swiss hospital and is returning to his home , where he 'll continue his recovery from head injuries suffered in a skiing accident last year , his spokeswoman said Tuesday .

`` Considering the severe injuries he suffered , progress has been made in the past weeks and months , '' said Sabine Kehm .

`` There is still , however , a long and difficult road ahead . ''

Schumacher , 45 , sustained severe head trauma in a skiing accident at the French Alps resort of Meribel on December 29 .

His investigative team said it thinks the experienced skier hit a rock hidden beneath the snow while traversing an area between two marked pistes , which catapulted him face-first onto another rock .

He was treated first at a hospital in Grenoble , in France , and then in June moved to a hospital in Lausanne , Switzerland , near the Schumacher family home .

Kehm appealed , as she has previously , for the privacy of his family to be respected as Schumacher continues his recovery .

The German national is a seven-time world champion whose F1 racing career ended in 2012 .

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Michael Schumacher is to continue his rehabilitation at home , his spokeswoman says

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He has been discharged from a hospital in Lausanne , Switzerland

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`` There is still ... a long and difficult road ahead , '' says his spokeswoman